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Tribes 2: Daring Air Commandos

Gary tore open the cardboard and peered inside in the glow of the kitchen lights. "This is a computer!" He said. "I thought we didn't have the money for another PC?"
His mother, easily as excited as her son, unpacked a mouse and keyboard. "We don't. This is a company PC -- you know, how some people have a company car? Well, I got a company PC. For work. And well, whatever else we want to do with it!" she beamed. "I'll put it in my bedroom and you can keep using this one out here."

Dinner that night consisted of some macaroni and cheese with leftover lunchmeat, but neither Kittridge cared in the excitement of their new possession. Soon Gary's mother was lugging stuff to her room, and from his vantage point in the den Gary could see her setting up the monitor right inside the door.

The moment of truth: a suprise attack reveals the presence of BeaK.

Gary fired up Tribes 2, hopped into a shrike, and began rampaging across the landscape. Every twenty minutes his mother would come in and grab something else -- a screwdriver, a mousepad, their entire software library (including games!) -- and scurry back to her room to continue setting up her new toy. Hours passed. Gary looked at his watch and realized it was 10:30 ... he peered back at the flickering glow he could see under his mother's door and realized, with a stir, that tonight could be the night. Distracted by installing work software on her new PC she probably wasn't checking the time. Gary may yet get to meet Beak face-to-face, shrike-to-shrike, an aerial test of wills that they would be talking about on PlanetTribes for months.

Excited, he scooted his chair forward, locked his eyes on the monitor, and dove his shrike straight inside the enemy base. Two supply stations and at least three turrets exploded, as well as all the mines, just as his teammates raced to attack. Oh yes. He was on fire tonight.